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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
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Passage Lookup: Job 4

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Job 4:1
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Eliphaz

Then Eliphaz the Temanite(a) replied:
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Job 4:2
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"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?(b)
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Job 4:3
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Think how you have instructed many,(c) how you have strengthened feeble hands.(d)
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Job 4:4
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Your words have supported those who stumbled;(e) you have strengthened faltering knees.(f)
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Job 4:5
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But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(g) it strikes(h) you, and you are dismayed.(i)
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Job 4:6
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Should not your piety be your confidence(j) and your blameless(k) ways your hope?
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Job 4:7
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"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(l) Where were the upright ever destroyed?(m)
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Job 4:8
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As I have observed,(n) those who plow evil(o) and those who sow trouble reap it.(p)
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Job 4:9
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At the breath of God(q) they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.(r)
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Job 4:10
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The lions may roar(s) and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions(t) are broken.(u)
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Job 4:11
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The lion perishes for lack of prey,(v) and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.(w)
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Job 4:12
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"A word(x) was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper(y) of it.(z)
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Job 4:13
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Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,(aa)
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Job 4:14
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fear and trembling(ab) seized me and made all my bones shake.(ac)
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Job 4:15
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A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.(ad)
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Job 4:16
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It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:(ae)
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Job 4:17
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‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?(af) Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?(ag)
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Job 4:18
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If God places no trust in his servants,(ah) if he charges his angels with error,(ai)
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Job 4:19
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how much more those who live in houses of clay,(aj) whose foundations(ak) are in the dust,(al) who are crushed(am) more readily than a moth!(an)
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Job 4:20
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Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.(ao)
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Job 4:21
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Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(ap) so that they die(aq) without wisdom?'(ar)
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